“Games are not just a source of entertainment. They are a model of how to become the best version of ourselves,” game designer and researcher…
1: “Why is it so hard to let go?” Marilyn said. Marilyn was ninety-six years old. A naturally curious person, she had engaged Diane Button,…
1: “Who wouldn’t want to lead a life truer to their dreams and free of regret?” Jane McGonigal writes in her book SuperBetter: The Power of Living Gamefully.…
How does creating a game help someone recover from a brain injury? 1: “How could a game so seemingly trivial, so admittedly simple, intervene so…
1: Are you facing a challenge that feels overwhelming? Are you walking through something really hard right now? There is good news, Jane McGonigal writes in…
1: In the summer of 2009, researcher and game designer Jane McGonigal hit her head and got a concussion. “It didn’t heal properly,” Jane writes…
1: “Our conversations started out funny and just got funnier,” Diane Button writes in her wonderful book What Matters Most: Lessons the Dying Teach Us…
1: “There’s wind and then there’s a typhoon, there are waves and then there’s a tsunami,” Andy Grove writes in Only the Paranoid Survive: How…
1: “We managers like to talk about change, so much that embracing change has become a cliché of management,” Andy Grove writes in Only the…
1: Then Intel CEO Andy Grove was sitting in a conference room with other members of the Intel team. The topic? “Evaluations of a certain…